Lydia Poole wants to be a good person—the kind of person who does everything right and deserves to be loved. To accomplish this, she eats only one ...
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Aug 30, 2010
Deborah
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This book makes the interior world of a young woman struggling with an eating disorder completely comprehensible. Like all good books, it carries the reader into a brand new universe and changes the way everything looks and feels afterward. Now I find myself seeing food through the protagonist's eyes. For her eating and not-eating have taken on symbolic meanings far beyond the physical. As the author's vivid and compassionate descriptions illuminate the protagonist's interior landscape, the read
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Jul 20, 2011
Lisa
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After the Strawberry is very good: engaging, considered, surprising. Lydia, the book's young protagonist, has stopped eating. Kathryn Pope manages to bring the reader into Lydia's world while also keeping that world private for Lydia, a place the character assiduously created in her struggle to make sense of things. Pope never sentimentalizes Lydia or anorexia; doesn't over-explain or encroach. Pope lets Lydia, flawed and compelling, speak for herself.
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Sep 19, 2011
Judy
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I read "Snow Angel Perfect," an abbreviated and incomplete version of "After the Strawberry," a free download for my Kindle. The topic, anorexia, is important. However, the characters in the book were not likeable/appealing, and the main character enlisted no feelings from me. Her parents were "losers." The story did not capture me and the writing was stiff & stilted. It seemed that approximately 75% of the sentences were of the version: subject/predicate with a few
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Feb 04, 2011
Bones
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Really good book, realistic. I don't like Jesse though. He swears too much. :(
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Feb 07, 2012
Rachael
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At first, it was hard to keep up with the writing style of this book. You just have to get through the first 2 chapters and then it is easier to follow along. It's a really great book about the struggles of anorexia and also the struggles of being a documentary film maker (even though it focuses more on the anorexia). If you have a device that you can read ebooks on then I definitely recommend this book. I think it's a little weird that it's only available on ebook, but it's obvious with the dif
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Mar 24, 2010
Michael
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Engrossing, enlightening read! Sheds enormous light on body issues, family dynamics and healing. Definitely worth a read!
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